Why red-eye happens

In this exercise I am going to show you how to solve red eye using the Red Eye…tool, and it's a highly automated tool, as it just so happens.…Now, it may or may not work; sometimes it works great, sometimes it doesn't,…sometimes it ends up creating sort of a gray eye effect, or it doesn't really…get to the heart of the red eye in the first place, it leaves little red halos…and that kind of thing. If you end up having those problems, then you need to…switch to Manual Red Eye Modification. I explained how to do that using Channel…operations in my full-on Photoshop Channels and Mask series, here on the…lynda.com Online Training Library, so you can go ahead and check that out. You…should be able to even do a search these days for red eye and find it, but…might as well try the Red Eye tool and see if it doesn't automate the process upfront.…

So we have got an image called A million red eyes.jpg. This has always been my…favorite red eye picture, because not only does my son Max have the red eye…

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12/3/2008

There's no program like Photoshop for editing photographs and creating photorealistic artwork. And there's no Photoshop teacher like industry expert and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Deke McClelland. In Photoshop CS4 One-on-One: Fundamentals, Deke examines the essential capabilities of the application, from correcting color to retouching portraits. He also covers navigation, resolution, cropping, selecting, printing, and making web graphics. This course goes beyond basic tips and tricks, and provides the in-depth information and real-world context needed by serious students who want to master the software. Exercise files accompany the course.